Do you donate blood?

I did once, and would like to do so again, but they don't take jerk blood.

steve, do they really ask about your sexual preference? wow

My personalhistory makesmeunqualified(my spacebadalsodoes notworktoday,sorry).

They screen people out for all sorts of questionable reasons, including being born in certain foreign countries (even if you lived there a matter of hours). I don't give blood because of health reasons, but fortunately my blood isn't in high demand anyway (B positive)

I get allergy shots every week, but for some reason giving blood just doesn't settle well with me. It's weird, but i'm not even afraid of blood.

I do it when there is a convenient blood drive near me. I'm afraid of bone marrow testing because I hear donating is pretty painful - and once you are in the system, it's pretty rude to say no. *** They actually ask a ton of questions now (when you give blood), it's rather freaky (Have you ever slept with someone who has slept with a homosexual? Have you ever flown over Haita? Are you a communist?) And they do this weird thing where they code your blood with a sticker that is either "yes, use my blood", or "no, I'm in a high-risk group don't use my blood but take it just so it will look like I'm not in a high risk group in front of my friends".

I just got up to one gallon.

The last time I investigated it they didn't want my blood because of activities I had engaged in within their time-limits. I should check and see if that's still the case.

But I would if I was old enough.

I have given blood but not recently because they don't want my blood anymore.

No one wants my blood... (and it's not very strange, knowing my habits).

Yes, since 1989

Low iron

no, because to the best of my knowledge the Red Cross still insists on asking 'are you someone who has had sex with another man since 1977". That is *bollocks*.

I would donate blood if the Red Cross and other blood collection agencies would allow me to. I've been rejected every time I tried, and back in high school I was strongly cautioned NOT to donate anymore.

I'd love to give blood if they'd let me...

haven't been old enough until just recently

I've donated three times since I've been in Australia, but for the previous few years I didn't donate because of various medications I'd been taking. But I've donated something like 11 pints total in about 10 years. I'm also a registered marrow donor and carry an organ donor card. My dad's donated something like 9 gallons by now, so I have a lot to live up to. :)

I used to, but since I've a) been pierced fairly recently and b) I have had sexual relations in the last year with a "man who has had sexual relations with another man, even once, since 1977", the Red Cross won't take my blood. Every now and then I go try, just to show them that they're turning away donors. I've had some interesting conversations with the little old ladies who staff the drives about the definition of sex, and why they don't differentiate between safe and unsafe sex or different sexual activities.

I used to donate blood a couple of times a year. then one day ai received a letter in the mail from red cross asking me to please stop donating blood as i had high levels of liver enzymes. huh...

Not yet, anyway.

Not any more...

As a matter of fact, I just donated blood today. :)

Umm I have what they think of as unwanted blood (something to do with living or have had sex with someone who lived or lives in some countries in Africa... Well thats me...)

I'd like to, but my body is selfish and rejects the idea of my giving away anything while it has a voice in the discussion.

I had Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever as a child - if you survive that, it's not because your body fights off the disease, but because it forms a truce with the rickettsia that causes it. Cons - no blood donation. Pros - not only am I now immune to Rocky Mtn Spotted fever, but also strongly resistant to typhus, yellow fever, and a bunch of other diseases.

Nope, they won't take it.

I don't donate blood, but I wish I could. I have those ridiculously small veins and no one can ever find them. I don't have my blood taken unless absolutly necessary.They usually end up poking me with needles like 5 or 6 times before they finally get blood. I have been told that if it were easier to get my blood is really good for donating, you know really deep red and all.

not old enough or I would.

I haven't yet, but I would like to. I went to do it once, but they'd already shut up shop. I worry about how it will make me feel afterwards, but I'm a lot healthier now than I used to be - not picking up every bug going, etc. I'm also put off by how difficult it is to get blood out of me as I have pretty poor veins. I don't fancy being stuck 10 times in each arm, only for them to give up when they only get 10mls out of me.